#livin

He helped make Living Things even more crazy than I wanted it to be. He added old-fashioned piano and classical folk music - that weird otherworldly vibe - all these elements got onto the record. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#classical #crazy #elements #even #folk

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. ↗

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

#brief #dead #even #ever #fear

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days). ↗

— Joe Tex

#area #born #both #brazil #days

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#destroy #instead #life #living #love

Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. ↗

— Elihu Root

#among #conception #constitutional #constitutional government #duties

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#expected #gnarly #inevitably #living #might

The living Church of the redeemed is his book. He founded a religion of the living spirit, not of a written code, like the Mosaic law. Yet his words and deeds are recorded by as honest and reliable witnesses as ever put pen to paper. ↗

— Philip Schaff

#church #code #deeds #ever #founded

There was living in the palace at this time a brother of the great Germanicus, and consequently an uncle of the late emperor, whose name was Claudius Caesar. ↗

— Frederic William Farrar

#caesar #claudius #consequently #emperor #great

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#breadth #compassion #creatures #depth #does

I asked myself, 'What are you going to do with your life? Are you going to be like everyone else or are you going to do what's right?' I just made a decision. I said, 'It's time to grow up. It's time to start living for the Lord, do things the right way.' I accepted the Lord, and it changed my life. ↗

— Luke Scott

#asked #changed #decision #else #everyone